or Bott, Botts, subs. (common).—The colic; belly-ache; gripes: tourmente.
1787. BURNS, Death and Doctor Hornbook, 27.
| A countra Laird had ta’en the BATTS, | |
| Or some curmurring in his guts. |
1816. SCOTT, Old Mortality, viii. ‘I ne’er gat ony gude by his doctrine, as ye ca’t, but a gude fit o’ the BATTS wi’ sitting amang the wet moss-hays for four hours at a yoking.
